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by rzzzt 2y ago
"X for Y" should make you draw a metaphorical, not literal comparison to X - it is something like X, applied in the context/audience/etc. of Y. "Tinder for boats"¹ is not Tinder. ¹ https://www.buzzfee
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by rzzzt 2y ago
Necroware has a replacement design for Dallas RTCs: https://github.com/necroware/nwX287
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by rzzzt 2y ago
I have "Spherical Harmonic Lighting: The Gritty Details" in my PDF stash: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Spherical-Harmonic-Lig...
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by rzzzt 2y ago
What am I actually paying for? Is it "the entire speedometer" ie. 24/7 100% utilization of the advertised upload/download capability of the link? Why not?
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by rzzzt 2y ago
If you have one of these workdays, do you feel that you have actually accomplished anything notable in the changelog? I find that it is very hard to "sell" this electron-cloud-like helping out behavior when you have an assigned ta
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by rzzzt 2y ago
psDooM pits you against processes on the system represented as enemies: https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
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by rzzzt 2y ago
Italians will get close to the first pronunciation both ways, I think. The Zalgo line noise is an international way of signaling the level of curse in writing.
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by rzzzt 2y ago
Pit Stop II on the C64 felt like you had force feedback on a digital joystick, no less!
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by rzzzt 2y ago
The eye condition: non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION)
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by rzzzt 2y ago
For me it works with JS disabled on the page: "TLDR; I’m launching a new Swift framework called Forked¹ for working with shared data, both on a single device, and across many." ¹ https://github.com/drewmccormack&#x2
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by rzzzt 2y ago
Panasonic still manufactures the Toughbook line, but it's more rugged than tough (ah, adjectives).
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by rzzzt 2y ago
What is the most precious item in your collection (for philatelic or personal reasons)?
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by rzzzt 2y ago
"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a
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by rzzzt 2y ago
Patient following of links resolves the mystery I'm sure everyone is asking: The ‘1€’ name is an homage to the $1 recognizer [10]: we believe that the 1€ filter can make filtering input signals simpler and better, much li
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by rzzzt 2y ago
Side question: did GTK3's HTML renderer get anywhere? I remember a calculator application running in a browser as a demo from a long time back.
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by rzzzt 2y ago
How about T-shirts? Websites, ads and "fun fact" news articles tell me it takes on the order of 10000 liters for each item... which seems to be a bit high but I don't have the means to verify the number.
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by rzzzt 2y ago
In the article the author is running Windows 3.1's installer in a SoftWindows emulator: https://winworldpc.com/product/softwindows/20
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by rzzzt 2y ago
"Semaglutide Reduces Cardiomyocyte Size and Cardiac Mass in Lean and Obese Mice" was also written by UoA researchers. I don't see anything nefarious in the choice of the title for the news blurb.
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by rzzzt 2y ago
The first link goes to the study and it does mention the ingredient: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452302X2...
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by rzzzt 2y ago
Unusual slowness might be experienced if the battery is dead or missing, as the embedded controller / SMC will assert the CPUs bi-directional PROCHOT signal and with that, lock it to the lowest available clock speed (700 MHz-ish on a 2
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by rzzzt 2y ago
Firefox 115 ESR still supports Sierra until next year: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-users-macos-101...
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by rzzzt 2y ago
'Git' itself also swaps between being an OK and a controversial project name from time to time. I don't really have an argument, I'll just point to this search result page and you can dive deep into the lore if you'
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by rzzzt 2y ago
The justification is present in the FAQ: https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#i-dont-like-the-name-... This is very much the same notion that comes up whenever CockroachDB is mentioned. IIRC at one point they had a &
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by rzzzt 2y ago
His podcast was exclusively on Spotify for a while, for a measurable amount of money (the article is from February when that portion of the deal ended): https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/joe-rogan-renews-s
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by rzzzt 2y ago
Space cable car? It is only a marginal increase in costs to pull a second cable.
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by rzzzt 2y ago
The dial is called "swing" on modern drum machines, the LM-1 has "shuffle" but it is essentially the same thing: https://www.attackmagazine.com/technique/passing-notes/daw-d...
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by rzzzt 2y ago
It appears further down in a sibling thread.
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by rzzzt 2y ago
Kikeriki in German!
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by rzzzt 2y ago
If you have the inclination and skills, it can be converted to an absolutely-zero-smartness display using an LCD driver board (this example conversion log used the A1419's housing with a separately purchased display panel): https:&#x2
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by rzzzt 2y ago
Processing and LÖVE are also similar.

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